Events archive

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Saudi-Iranian rivalry: filling contested vacuums in the Middle East

Matteo Legrenzi (Ca’Foscari University, Venice)
31 October 2014 - 5:00pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: A Polarized Middle East
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Iraq and Syria: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising

Patrick Cockburn (Middle East Correspondent, The Independent)
24 October 2014 - 6:00pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: A Polarized Middle East
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: The Racial Formations of the Chosen People in the Chosen Land.

Prof Smadar Lavie (University of California, Berkeley)
17 October 2014 - 6:00pm
MIDDLE EAST CENTRE FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES: A Polarized Middle East
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans and Empires in Oman 1965-1976

Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti (Sheffield University)
28 February 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Historical ethnography of the 1979 revolution in Iran

Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University)
21 February 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Free Press and Political Power: Morocco 1992 – 2012

Driss Ksikes (Founding Editor of Tel Quel and Nichane)
14 February 2014 - 5:30pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Fraticide and autocracy: The clash of two political Islams in Turkey

Dr Kerem Oktem (European Studies Centre, Oxford University)
7 February 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival in the Western Sahara

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University)
31 January 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Hezbollah and the Syrian-Lebanese Relationship

Dr Daniel Meier
24 January 2014 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF, the Middle East Centre
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The revolution devours its own children? The case of transitional justice in Tunisia

Dr Doris Gray (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
6 December 2013 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The European Union and Israel/Palestine: EU Policies and Israeli Prerogatives in Fragmented Borderlands

Dr Raffaella Del Sarto (European University Institute, Florence & John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna)
29 November 2013 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Transformation of Turkish foreign policy under the impact of the Arab Spring

Dr Emel Parlar Dal, Marmara University, Istanbul
22 November 2013 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Creole Jews? Zionism and the Invention of Hebrew Nativity

Professor Derek Penslar, Oxford University
8 November 2013 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Slow Rise and Rapid Fall of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Dr Hazem Kandil, Cambridge University
1 November 2013 - 5:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
View from Woodstock Road of the Kirdar Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Anti-veiling Campaigns, Past and Present

Dr Stephanie Cronin, Oxford University
25 October 2013 - 6:00pm
68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

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